Two arrests in Stockton shooting

Watsonville police have arrested two Stockton men who were connected to a June 19 carjacking in Stockton where a security guard was shot, according to a news release.

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Posted Jul. 6, 2014 at 12:01 AM

By The Record

Posted Jul. 6, 2014 at 12:01 AM

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Watsonville police have arrested two Stockton men who were connected to a June 19 carjacking in Stockton where a security guard was shot, according to a news release.

Rogelio Martinez, 21, of Stockton, who has family ties to Watsonville, was arrested on suspicion of resisting arrest, according to a Watsonville police news release. John Anthony Oliveri, 19, of Stockton was arrested on a felony warrant and suspicion of resisting arrest, police said.

Both were passengers in a gray Honda Accord that had led Watsonville Police officers on a 2.5-mile chase through Watsonville and into Santa Cruz County, where it was deliberately driven into Salsipuedes Creek and abandoned, police said.

Officers chased down Martinez and Oliveri and looked for the driver and another man.

A search of the car revealed a large-capacity magazine for a 9mm gun. A search of the chase area led officers to a 9mm gun that had been thrown out of the car, police said.

Police identified Erivan Chavez of Watsonville as the driver and are searching for him and an unidentified third passenger.

The Honda was reported carjacked by Stockton Police on June 19.

They had responded to a report of a person shot around 1:55 a.m. that day in the 1500 block of Picardy Drive, just south of the Haggin Museum.

They had found a 60-year-old security guard beaten and with a gunshot wound to his upper body, Stockton Police said. He was taken to a local hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.

The victim had told police he was standing next to his car when he was approached by three men, all armed with revolvers, who arrived in a red 2000s-model Dodge pickup with an extended cab. The assailants forced him to sit on the ground and then struck him with an unknown object, police said.

The victim fought back when the assailants started to take his property, and that's when he was shot, officers said. The assailants took the victim's cash, keys and car, a 2005 Honda Accord, authorities said. They initially called it white, but the Watsonville Police report said Stockton Police were looking for a gray Honda, and that was the car they spotted, initiating the chase.